زمانہ
نہ تھا اگر تو شریک محفل، قصور میرا ہے یا کہ تیرامرا طریقہ نہیں کہ رکھ لوں کسی کی خاطر مےء شبانہ
English translation
If in the circle you were not numbered, was it your own fault or mine? To humour no-one am I accustomed to keep untasted the midnight wine!
Translated by V.G. Kiernan
About this couplet
This is couplet 4 of 10 in “زمانہ” (Time) in the section Poems, from Allama Muhammad Iqbal's Urdu book Bal-e-Jibril (بالِ جبریل), published in 1935.
Read it in the poem۴ / ۱۰